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A Christmas Story

By John Andrews We’ve told plenty of Christmas stories in nearly 40 years of publishing South Dakota Magazine, but one of our favorites was written by Marian Cramer, of the Bryant/De Smet area. In the early years of the magazine, Cramer interviewed Hilda McKnight...

Dell Rapids Area Garden Club holds November meeting

Submitted by Donna Smith The Dell Rapids Area Garden Club met on Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 1:30pm at the Quest Church.The meeting was called to order by Co-President Deon Jensen.The Pledge of Allegiance and Club mottos were recited.A motion was made and seconded...

Senior Center enjoys music and dining

Dell Rapids Senior Center was joined by St Mary’s Elementary singers. The group provided a wonderful selection of Christmas carols and songs of the season. Members of the Senior Center enjoyed a delicious dinner catered by Cricket’s catering, followed by some rousing...

Baltic elementary shows off their robotics skills

Baltic Students in the “Challenge” division compete with their Lego Robots. This team advanced to the state competition which will be held on February 17 at Augustana University. (Photo/Submitted) Grace Wolff | Staff Intern Robotics is a subject that most may think is...

Junior Cardinals are concert ready

The St. Mary Junior Cardinals are all smiles as they proudly show off their Christmas Concert costumes after their performance. (Photo/Submitted)

Becoming famous one book at a time

The St. Mary Cardinal third grade class took their talents to pen and paper. The third graders wrote and illustrated the book “If I Was In Charge of the World.” In addition to writing and illustrating the book, the class also hosted a book signing party....

Let’s not talk about the pipeline!

Letter to the Editor I have farmed my entire life. I am in my sixties. Our five children are fully launched, one of which is farming with us. I have never written a letter to the editor in my life. This topic; however, is worthy of every landowner and home owner’s...